California's state constitution bans involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime. Several states have, in recent years, approved amendments to their constitutions to remove slavery and involuntary servitude exemptions.
Democratic Assemblymember Lori Wilson, of Suisun City, left, talks with state Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman, of Stockton, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023.
In California and many other states, the state constitution bans involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime. The proposed amendment would change the constitution to say that “slavery and involuntary servitude are prohibited.” Proponents of the measure want the state toin which people who are incarcerated are often paid less than $1 an hour to fight fires, clean prison cells and do yardwork at cemeteries.
California has a long legacy of involuntary servitude that still lingers today with people who are incarcerated who are forced to work often facing the threat of punishment if they refuse, said state Sen. Steven Bradford, a Los Angeles-area Democrat. The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has a similar exception to California for slavery and involuntary servitude as a “punishment for crime” if the person has been “duly convicted.” Democrats in Congress have failed in recent years to pass a
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